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by lcdoutlet 3377 days ago
Cool project!

I currently use http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org/ along with w3m and it works great but does not appear to be currently maintained. Would you have any interest in adding similar search options to your application? Query Wikipedia, HN or Stack Overflow.... directly?

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We introduced googler @t in the latest release to handle that to some extent using Google Site Search. Yes, it would be fun to support direct site searches but it would also be quite difficult to maintain it.

I did give it a shot last week and found the search strings and result patterns of probably every other site different. Just imagine keeping up with changes in the URLs! For a while I thought "why not launch the URLs directly in the browser" to keep it simpler? But then googler wouldn't remain a fun terminal utility to develop anymore. ;)